Robotic Spaceflight - Bryant McGill

# Robotic Spaceflight ## Definition **Robotic Spaceflight** uses autonomous or remotely operated machines to explore, measure and act beyond Earth. Improvements in artificial intelligence, miniaturization and robotics continually expand the work machines can perform without exposing human bodies or life-support systems to space. ## Conceptual relationships [[wiki/Robotics|Robotics]] · [[wiki/Space Exploration|Space Exploration]] · [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Martin Rees research route [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] supplies a primary quotation dossier connecting this concept to Rees's work on cosmology, technological risk, machine intelligence, posthuman evolution and deep time. ## Article and collection routes - [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “The first voyagers to the stars will not be human, and maybe not even organic.” > **— Martin Rees**, *Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans, Lifeboat Foundation, Essay* [[reminders/Space Survival/The First Voyagers to the Stars May Not Be Organic by Martin Rees|The First Voyagers to the Stars May Not Be Organic by Martin Rees]] > “The entire solar system will be explored by flotillas of robotic craft.” > **— Martin Rees**, *No need for manned spaceflight, says Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, The Guardian, 2010* [[reminders/Robotics/Robotic Flotillas Will Explore the Solar System by Martin Rees|Robotic Flotillas Will Explore the Solar System by Martin Rees]] > “The practical need for manned spaceflight gets ever weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturization. These robots won’t be humanoid in size and shape.” > **— Martin Rees**, *The Future of Space Exploration and Technology, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, n.d.* [[reminders/Robotics/Better Robots Weaken the Case for Human Spaceflight by Martin Rees|Better Robots Weaken the Case for Human Spaceflight by Martin Rees]] > “At the moment, if we send a probe to Mars, it’s not able to decide where to dig or where there’s an interesting sample. But in 10 or 20 years, the kind of AI that allows machines to look at 100,000 X-rays of your lungs and decide better than a human whether you’ve got lung cancer—that sort of technology will enable the AI to do the geology. You don’t need the people for that.” > **— Martin Rees**, *Should Robots Take Astronauts’ Place In Space Exploration?, Science Friday, 2022* [[reminders/Robotics/AI Will Let Robotic Geologists Replace Astronauts by Martin Rees|AI Will Let Robotic Geologists Replace Astronauts by Martin Rees]]